The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-08-14
THE TALE OF THE MOSQUITO.
A TRUE STORY OF nov SHE COMES
AND WHAT ~ GOOD FOR HER

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p,heo' 's ,,,,,,o,,, ahsorhint, than into tho
bic 10 prea'ue mi'no"' "osot o' , 49, -, ,,
constitution. The pest has blasted the iair
roniae If a GOOD many sensible hotels already,
Pro'n .',v a. ~, d,n,,t,n va, nniess nm east
wind drives the insects back to their lairs.
The brunt Of tho visitation Is borne by the
little strip oil nity ihl'es VI eahu th"t iios pe-
twocn tho Atlantic Ocean and Barnogat Bay.
AVN tho Jersey ooast. This STRIP often not
over hundred yarus Wlue' Is CONTINUOUS
marsh on tho bay side. From this marsh the
-,,,,oos ,roaa n vaek apo lito n cloud of
moslui'ooe " 80 AL - ,,,..,;n,, H.,
smoke. ana Win Httie Hore WARMING YUAN
though they wore the result OF spontaneous
have wire screens ut the WINDOWS, ana tho
Eues's mo"l h"nn tbe,,, n fav davs hnt sucb
they haV' poen .., 80 -, a.. .,I,i,
triies as iron wire una suhourh are mourning
AGAINST tho mosquitoes.
Tha yuosts Ned. At one hotel not n soul re-
Inc sues.s neu' nv ."o ~, NV ..
NAMED but the Sssn ossr pses
"a tho situation ,worse becauso tho people
ana inc s,tua.'o" "y,so' Dsoo sno poon'
could not lee SO unanimously. Long Brencn,
Aseury Park and the adjacent lent resorts nave
sWe'eiou "uu o"'ih enuo' WAC ~ =,
tion OF the heat and the mosquitoes. while
further up, at Staten Island life on some even
inss has boen a misery, and death relief not
to be sought for fear that the beasts would de-
YOUR the remains before there was opportunity
ried on there with paper shieids for the legs
fence I W Wills 81 lovemaking. once o business of
Sh 10 e and
pTec i Of the front parlors
men at Princes Bay and other fishing resorts
who stand on the wharves and sell fish to the
fishermen from New York who have been a out
stroyed, for the New Yorkors can't sit in the
oGS ew " YorS eitv has missed the Worst of this
as It does Of most summer pests. even Of heat
Eyerybody has been saying that the sudden
and abominable plague was caused by the heat
and humidity Prof Sou! hwick. up al the Gem
emit varieties OF insects in the Park and who
Knows s' ali about limos mosquitoes if anybody does
rigbt The mosuuitoes are sired by heat and
damned by humidity-as likewise, but differ
entity BY humanity; u. .,,. n,,,,. =, ~. IN
sects," says the Professor, Is the direct effect
Of the long hot smell and the unusual dampness
with which II has bean accom- panieCi This
Cnmh mf has a crestnd ciremms,ances most
favorable to the successful propagation of the
millions of whsh haze been
been stagnant water. Ii Is a mistake to sup
nose that mosquitoes breed peculiarly in salt
i IL wster Tbey ara ike the Mississippi gun
boats they used to toll of that could run
"f water ieff standiae in fountain will pro.
Suce mosouitoes enough to drive out a houses
ful Of people"
us there any way Of preventing the breed
1s the aT nests 81 of keeping them away
N0thhing that has yet b bee p discovered TELL WI
come s, and they Bite. and that's ali there is abont
1t. Tobacco smoke. bonfires. pennyroyaL kero-
ss as % en sg a and aead bst
when they come in such swarms rs prevail
now nothing WIZ Keep them Oh. supp4 tSe
nE as tss IS hsad
any other disinisciant put put in the water would
induce extreme WEAKNESS on the part OF the
laryS from Which me insects come ON, ,,,,,
Can anything make their bites harmless!
oh. yes; the remedy for q mosquitq's bite Is
to let It bite. mi That sounds funny; but It Il
literally true. The insect inlects into the wound
It makes little poisonous matter; when
thins the blood and makes i How easily. II II
Is let alone the MOSQUITO viii suck ont all tbs
poison along with the blood, and the bite Will be
no more painful than the PRICK OF PIN. when
disturbed. however, before IL has llled Itself
with blood. tho insect flies away, leaving some
Of the poison in the blood about the bite, and
this causes the subsaluent'itching and swell
Ing. 1t Is very hard for any one to remain
passive while serving as banquet for mos
quito. and the next best remedy that know
for the biteis ammonia. little OF the cheap
stun you can buy ut any drug store rubbed
over the bite Will take the sting out of it at once.
Sowill ordinary soda and number OF other
things OF the same nature A little phial OF
ammonia carried around by person who SUI,
iers particularly from mosquito bltes VIII save
loads Of trouble and good deal OF profanity
One old book says on this same subject:
certain that little care woald often the
inmates Of houses distant from ssEnan wsisrs from
These pests FOR which they nave sosi 10 thank Iher
sy % wa tubs or f,serHs r IN ca
psin,ed this out and myself found thas the gnats
which so annoyed us in the house we occupied Pisa
late in the Of 1850 to require gliSe mosquito